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Originally Posted by Yami
Snake Eyes would be great. For me, it's perhaps De Palma's last (to date! we live in hope...) great film and it would be incredible if anyone could restore the original tidal wave ending
I wonder if Max Ophuls' Caught might be one of these. It has had a 4K restoration and the old Olive release is OOP. For the other one...The Miracle of Morgan's Creek? Kino have given us some Sturges in the past
If I had to choose just one Paramount-owned 50s film it would be the Frank Tashlin/Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis film Artists and Models which - like most of their films - hasn't had a good HD release anywhere.
For the 60s', there was a restoration of Robert Bresson's Une Femme Douce done a few years ago so hopefully that finally makes it onto disc courtesy of Kino.
I'd also love to see Mikhail Kalatazov's (The Cranes are Flying, I Am Cuba) final film - an odd international co-production starring Sean Connery, Peter Finch and Claudia Cardinale called The Red Tent - but I'm not sure what materials Paramount would have for it.
And like everybody else, I'd love Once Upon a Time in the West on UHD.
So, I'll have the pleasure of seeing the premiere of a new restoration of Bernardo Bertolucci's masterpiece The Conformist at Il Cinema Ritrovato next month. Paramount released it on DVD but Raro somehow released it on Blu-Ray so I'm not sure if Paramount somehow lost the rights but a UHD of that would be incredible. Days of Heaven is the other big one I'd love on UHD from Paramount's catalog. Criterion lost the rights a couple of years ago.
Other films I'd love to see on Blu-Ray - Robert Benton's Bad Comapny with Jeff Bridges, Louis Malle's Pretty Baby, Peter Bogdanovich's Daisy Miller
Hoping for at least one of: Jerzy Skolimowski's The Lightship, Frank Perry's Compromising Positions, American Gigolo, Children of a Lesser God, Witness
Paramount apparently has some rights to Terence Davies' Gena Rowlands-starring The Neon Bible and it would be a dream to finally get that released.
I'd also like Bogdanovich's The Thing Called Love - think Inside Llewyn Davis but with country music and a very odd but effective final performance by River Phoenix.
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Many great suggestions here. I love Bresson’s
A Gentle Woman, but I’m guessing it’s earmarked for Criterion.
Thing Called Love is a massively underrated gem
The Lightship is a CBS title, no? Another underrated one.